College: To Engineer or not?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Jay Trzaskos

Chris, I am a senior in high school who is eagerly awaiting acceptance letters to arrive in the mail any day now. I am what you may call a FIRST fanatic, I mentor FLL and FVC while competing in FRC. But, I also faced, and am still facing, the same problem. I love FIRST... alot, but I also have a strong love for American History. On every college application I submitted I placed Mechanical Engineering and American History as my first and second choice of major (respectively). I am still somewhat unsure as to what I am going to study. My advice is to follow your heart. If nothing else, you can always switch your area of study. But if you don't think you will enjoy what you are going to end up doing for the rest of your career, chance are, it's not what you were meant to do.

JT
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I'm in the same boat with Jay, I LOVE HISTORY.

Do what feels right. Do what you want. Dean won't cry at night because you didn't go into engineering, he'll be happy that his program inspired someone to push themself farther and to do greater things.

People go to college for two reasons: to learn a skill like engineering, or to get a liberal arts education. Do what feels right, explore, find new things. I podcast, do web design, graphics, and am an engineer. Roll with the punches. Have fun.

If you need any help, IM me sometime, I'm more than willing to help (around going to classes and doing HW of course ).